Forming
untapped toolkit

Calendar Compulsion

Supercharge your ability to produce by being obsessed with organizing your day.
Calendar Compulsion
01

Why it matters?

Keeping a calendar is one thing — being wholly obsessed with how you drive it is another. On the light side, it’s a great tool to keep track of important deadlines, appointments and helps you get organized.

 On the hefty side, your calendar can be your plan and prescription to living life to the fullest. The more compulsive you are with your calendar, the more liberated you can be for the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of your day to churn things out, lose track of time, and finish work at a healthy hour so you can spend more time chilling with people and things you love. 

In fact, the calendar becomes your mini-roadmap each day to ensure you’re protecting yourself from unwanted distraction, traveling down the right road, to the desired destination, at warp speed if you’re using it to harness peak states during the day. It’s the ultimate accountability buddy. 

02

How it works?

  • Figure out your preference for using either a paper planner, calendar productivity app (ie. Toggl) or stick with a classic: Google Calendar. Consolidate all your planning activities to one place to reduce cognitive load. Even work vs. life, you can add more than one calendar to a calendar space and sync.
  • Set a routine of when you plan your next day and/or week. Block out actual time to do this with focus and planning – and try not to leave it last minute. For instance: plan your week on the Sunday afternoon prior and your next day to cap the one prior. Review each week for its effectiveness.
  • Group similar activities into the same color-coded blocks. Be consistent.
  • Optimize time for various activities as they relate to your chronotype.
  • Avoid back-to-back meetings all day or even more than 3. > Know when to say “no!”
  • Reduce clutter and avoid filling 16 hours on your calendar: add blocks of free time or creative space.
  • Set the most important blocks first (DND hours for sleep or family time, exercise, mindfulness, power ups and power downs) to protect your energy.
  • Then set your most important consistent blocks (ie. sales or strategy hours).
03

Examples

Take aways

Commit to using your calendar as a way to supercharge your day. 

Sources: